Re: a "natural language" ?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 29, 2004, 14:03 |
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:23:59PM +0100, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Then never try to learn Taiwanese, which has the full load (and more)!
> :-) IIRC, eight phonemic tones, but sixteen tone realisation on the
> surface with tone sandhi rules that involve the previous and the
> subsequent syllable. :-)
I keep running across that term "sandhi". Does that just mean the rules
that determine which allophone is chosen in a given phonetic
environment, or is something else going on?
-marcos
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